A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades ...

Taliban bans internet across more Afghan provinces to ‘prevent immorality’ - Ban to ‘prevent immorality’ first since the ...

The Taliban has cut fibre-optic internet across northern and eastern Afghanistan, expanding a ban that began in Balkh ...

Some provincial officials said the country’s leader instructed them to switch off Wi-Fi in their area to limit the “misuse of ...

The latest government attack on internet connectivity – and one of the most drastic so far – comes from Afghanistan, where ...

The strictness launched by the Taliban in Afghanistan in the name of 'prevention of immoral activities' is now spreading ...

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic ...

The Taliban has imposed a ban on fibre-optic internet across various provinces in Afghanistan, limiting access to Wi-Fi for government, private sectors, and homes. Mobile internet still functions. The ...

It is the first such ban since the 2021 return to power by the hardline Islamist movement, which has voiced concern over pornography and flirtation between men and women online.

The Taliban administration on Wednesday announced an internet ban across a swathe of northern Afghanistan, “to prevent immoral activities,” provincial government statements said.

Afghan authorities under the Taliban regime intensified their internet restrictions on Wednesday by disconnecting fiber optic ...